Tied

Examples

• After spelling it out slowly, the man made it into a little roll, and tied it up in an end of his neckerchief still more slowly. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Every shilling of my money is tied up. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Stripping his harness from him I securely bound his hands behind his back, and after similarly fastening his feet tied him to a heavy gun carriage. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• They were all marked and docketed, and tied with red tape. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The early plants were tied, and most lowly plants to-day are tied, by the conditions of their life cycle, to water. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• There's a hackney-coachman downstairs with a black eye, and a tied-up head, vowing he'll have the law of you. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• By another ingenious device the cord was tied and cut, when the sewing was completed. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• It was metal, ‘elastic metal,’ as Daniel Webster termed it, that could be wound round the finger, or tied into a knot, and which preserved its elasticity like steel. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• When I came to I found that it was still bleeding, so I tied one end of my handkerchief very tightly round the wrist and braced it up with a twig. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• The rope was accordingly tied round his waist, and the work proceeded. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• There are not two opinions on that head, said Shirley, as she tied on her own bonnet, and then ran to fetch Caroline's. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Fig.?3 shows how these rest upon the plates and how they are tied together so as to least interfere with the filling of the silo. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Other mechanisms cut and divided the block into strips, which were then dipped at one end, dried and tied in bundles. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The shoes next go to the packing department, where they are taken off the lasts, inspected, marked, tied together in pairs, sorted and packed. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Do you tell me that that angel, is to be tied to Roaring Jack Woodley for life? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• He had it tied round his neck, with a black string. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• There were no bridles--nothing but a single rope, tied to the bit. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Well, old chap, said Joe, it do appear that she had settled the most of it, which I meantersay tied it up, on Miss Estella. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• He wanted to thank her for having been to see his mother, but under the ancestress's malicious eye he felt himself tongue-tied and constrained. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Her face tied up. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• I'm generally so tied down; but I met the Countess Ellen in Madison Square, and she was good enough to let me walk home with her. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Charley, with her best curtsy, blushingly tied on her bonnet and went her way. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• At seven o'clock, the four members ascended to the clubroom, tied their badges round their heads, and took their seats with great solemnity. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Our party halted, and I tied a white pocket handkerchief to a stick and, using it as a flag of truce, proceeded on to the town. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The lash, however, was curled upon itself and tied so as to make a loop of whipcord. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• She tied a knot with flashing eyes, as if it throttled a foe. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• The strings were tied; she turned from him. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• I saw him do it; and the last that I heard was her moans and screams, when I was tied to his horse's neck, to be carried off to his place. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• She carried me on her lap, in a box tied about her waist. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• She had on a red cloak and a black bonnet: or rather, a broad- brimmed gipsy hat, tied down with a striped handkerchief under her chin. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.

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